why is it then . if i dont flush my plants then it will taste like fertilizer ? and very dark black clogging dark ash with a popping nose when being smoked . if you can tell me why please then i dont have to run clean water throw them any more before i harvest . please tell me what i am doing wrong ? i will make my own posting asking what i am doing wrong so i can lean .
Because you are not curing properly and drying before the cure is just as important !!
4 days to dry and then a week or 2 in a jar that's "burped" once a day is NOT cured!
I dry around 55% RH in a dark room. I don't even bother to check it for a week. It does tend to be pretty close at that point. I'll attempt to "bend" the stems (branch stems). If they bend and not crack. (usually on the first try or 2) They continue on drying. When they crack and not bend, Done! Into the jars they go (sans the stems) and all the jars get a Boveda 62% pack. I must note here that if they snap the stem straight in half - TOO dry and they get put in jars and a Boveda pack in 72% goes in for 5 days. At the end of those 5 days the Boveda is changed to a 62% pack and they are dated on top and the cure begins.
I will now burp each jar once a day by opening the jar and allowing a brief air exchange by cracking the top for a minute or so, by opening the lid an inch or so over to one side. I do this for the first 2 weeks......At this point I'l now stop "burping" every day and change to one to two times a week as I see fit. This continues for another 2 weeks and then they simply remain shut for 4 weeks.
At the end of 8 weeks in the jars, I'll roll one and test it!
You will get clean burn and fantastic flavors! This is "cured"! Let me say something here on RH and curing. If your going to smoke it. You need to cure it. To cure it MUST be in a range of RH that allows it TO cure. Too low and NOTHING will happen. Too high and it remains that way and the cure is s-l-o-w-e-d down to a crawl and 2 months that it takes, that your now grumbling about as in how much longer that adds to your already too long to grow run, That you might as well count on the next crop being in jars before you can even stop the once a week burps!
The point is,,DO IT RIGHT and be PATIENT!
My cigars sit in a humidor at 72% RH. I have cigars that are decades old and in perfect health! Yes, they are still "curing" (in a sense) but so slowly that it only makes them better! Boveda pack will work both ways! They increase RH as needed and decrease RH as needed! Awsome! Once the weed is in the jars and a 62% (THE perfect RH for curing) Boveda is in place, the first part of "curing" speeds up from about mid dry, as the buds have begun to "ferment". The nasties in the plant matter are being changed to good things and the waste gases (even ammonia) are given off and that's what your getting rid of by burping. This process lasts around 2 weeks in a strong way and slows down a lot as the actual (in
my book) "cure" begins! So during this next 2 weeks there is still some residual "fermenting" going on and that's why you still burp at least once a week. I fact I'll make it easy for you here. The 3rd week, burp every 3rd day. At week 4 only once every six days and starting week 5 STOP burping.
So here we are at week 5 and we stop burping. During the next 4 weeks the flavors are defined and the potency increases over being just picked! I know some guys who will let this process go for 6 weeks! Well this is where my patience runs out
, as I don't worry about it as it'll sit in it's jars by who ever buys it or till sold anyway....
There is another "cure" called Malawi Cob curing! There are things that go on that don't in "our" cure method that do in "cobbing" that makes for a
stronger potency and a different flavor profile. You can "eat" cobbed weed directly from the "cob" and get the same intense buzz as eating decarbed butters/oils or weed!
Here is a perfect post on how to do it and short-cut the buried part by vac sealing! Nod - o - the head to those who have supplied this link in the past.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=309172
Now go forth and skip the flush, knowing that if you follow these simple directions and have the proper patience. Your stash is going blow away MANY others and cause others to bow at your ability (as long as you grew it right)!
Now carry on and cure properly!
